Introduction: Gettysburg 1964 -- Progressive reformers of real estate -- The public power of a private club -- It's the restrictions on your neighbors which count -- Implementing racial exclusion -- Undesirable human elements -- Shaping federal housing programs -- Reconciling the war against Hitler with a new racial entitlement -- Defending racial covenants -- Recommitting to segregation after Shelley -- Using freedom of association to intensify segregation -- The idea of a national conservative party -- Struggling for an ideology to defend against fair housing -- Creating a standardized ideology of freedom -- A constitutional amendment to permanently protect discrimination -- Racial moderation to continue segregation -- Redefining freedom and America's founding -- A battle between two visions of freedom -- Reagan and the realtors -- Realtor victories against fair housing -- To defeat the realtors -- An ideology of freedom for a national conservative party -- The continuation of residential segregation -- A legacy for civil rights -- Who is entitled to American freedom.
Summary:
A landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows this story from inside the realtor profession, drawing on many industry documents that have remained unexamined until now. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word freedom
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